How do they expect you to have experience coming out of College if NOBODY will give an opportunity and they look at your college projects as just trash!!! How can somebody even get a chance to get an interview?

A friend of mine just got a job with IBM a year out of school. He did not have a 3.0, but he had a year of doing inventory analysis and an econ degree. They hired him as a generalist, probably because he has good computer skills.

JoeLArock in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania said: Look for the back door! If you really want a job and not have someone hand one to you like welfare, you'll figure it out. Firms like IBM, Accenture, and Deloitte often have software class-- test incubators, really. They pay you some small stypend to take a class in say ABAP or another language to test to see if you have any skills or just a degree. It's sort of like "boot camp" for the computer industry. If you make it through their 4 or 5 week program, you become eligible for a job. You usually have to wait another 4 or 5 weeks before they will hire you. Then they bring you in at $25K a year. They put you to work to see if you are a "keeper" or not. If you are, they will take care of you financially. It takes about 2 years before you make it (or not) from when you start the class. They don't advertise the class and you need to find someone on the inside to get you involved. There are so many people applying for jobs they need a system to find out who really wants to work and who just wants a paycheck. No one said life was easy.

Look- first off, what i SAID went all over your head, ok and that shows how people can take something and just run with it not knowing all of the facts!!! What you said, is completely irrelevant to what I was talking about. It's not that hard to get a job in IT and you don't have to go and take no classes. I know several people who have got hired without going through all of that stuff with no experience and you are wrong about the salary #. NO IT job will start at 25k, do you know that Teachers make more than that? It really don't matter now b/c I have received a job offer and its a great salary!!! And I never said life was easy, you just have to know how to work the system!

dav in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania said: Your not getting a job because you write like a child.

I love the humanity here. Almost every thread I've seen on this site today has two or more people yelling at each other like school children fighting over marbles on a playground. white america is self absorbed and ignorant but this has been an eye opener:/ We are the laughing stock bimbos of the universe! Beam me up now please.

When I was at IBM in the early 1990's we target recruited 22 colleges. The most well rounded major we hired then was Industrial Engineers - needed a 3.4 GPA but starting salaries then was $35,000 PLUS overtime for a BS. Master's started around $42,000 then no overtime payment. I don't understand previous postings salaries and IBM in the same paragraphs. EE's and ME's along with Computer Science majors would start in the same range then.

WOW, all I can say is that Ree is a sad example of College graduates today. Most of the worlds business is done through written communication. How very sad to see a rebuttal that was written so poorly. You would never make it in a Fortune 500 company with those grammar skills. Try learning spell check as your first computer skill.